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Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Admittedly, this TOTW is one day late, so this week there will be 2xTOTW! In any case, the tip I want to bring up here is very much related to last week's TOTW on Reverse search in bash. Sometimes, reverse searching just doesn't work out. You may not be quite …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Have you ever found yourself furiously tapping the UP-arrow (or ctrl+p) to
find a command that's probably waaaay up there? Would you be surprised if I
told you there's a better way? When you want to re-use a command you've written
previously, and you know it's not the previous …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
In order to actually get around to writing some content, I've decided to start a little series: Tip of the Week! Every week, I'll spend 30 minutes or so writing a very small article about some tip related to programming, Linux or technology in general. And no, this one does …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog
Edit: The migration is complete! The Flask-based site has been retired and this Pelican-based site is fully fleshed out with the old content :)
I'm currently in the midst of migrating my old blog over here. Until I'm done, both sites will be a bit half-baked, sorry about that!
Posted by Simon Larsén in Testing
Unit testing is a skill that takes some time to develop, and there are numerous pitfalls for the beginner. As I've done my fair share of unit testing, and taught a lot of students what I know, I've decided to share my top tips of things to think about when …